Senior Contracts in South London

Senior
London > South London

The median Senior daily rate in South London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 29 52 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 12.24% 13.47% 7.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.55% 14.57% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 21
10th Percentile £428 £413 £406
25th Percentile £500 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £638
90th Percentile £583 £940 £734
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £48.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -21.88% +86.92% -21.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South London with a recognized job title 231 357 354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.47% 92.49% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 281 274
10th Percentile £201 £213 £252
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £775 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.13 £39.34
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.06 £40.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £22.98 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -51.55% +2.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.90
90th Percentile £83.75 £52.21 £55.29
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in South London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in South London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon -3 18 £550 - 7
Kingston Upon Thames 0 5 - - 10
Merton 0 2 £500 +17.65% 11
Senior
London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) AWS
5 8 (27.59%) JIRA
5 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 6 (20.69%) Python
6 6 (20.69%) Git
6 6 (20.69%) Confluence
6 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
6 6 (20.69%) Terraform
7 5 (17.24%) Docker
7 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
7 5 (17.24%) Bash
7 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
7 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
8 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Code Quality
8 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
8 4 (13.79%) OCI
8 4 (13.79%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (13.79%) Go
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
8 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
8 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (13.79%) Aerospace
8 4 (13.79%) Unix

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
2 4 (13.79%) OCI
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) Azure
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) GIS
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) Git
2 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Postman
3 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Aerospace
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Back Office
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
2 3 (10.34%) Hibernate
2 3 (10.34%) JPA
2 3 (10.34%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Spring
2 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.34%) Spring Security
3 2 (6.90%) React
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
1 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Agile
1 11 (37.93%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 4 (13.79%) Code Quality
3 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
3 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) Requirements Management
3 4 (13.79%) Scrum
3 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
3 4 (13.79%) Supplier Management
3 4 (13.79%) UML
4 3 (10.34%) Observability
4 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) TDD
5 2 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.90%) Design Patterns
5 2 (6.90%) Roadmaps
5 2 (6.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) Go
4 3 (10.34%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) Bicep
5 2 (6.90%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) NEC